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362 Overseas branch registers.E+W+S
(1)A company having a share capital whose objects comprise the transaction of business in any of the countries or territories specified in Part I of Schedule 14 to this Act may cause to be kept in any such country or territory in which it transacts business a branch register of members resident in that country or territory.
(2)Such a branch register is to be known as an “overseas branch register”; and—
(a)any dominion register kept by a company under section 119 of the Companies Act 1948 is to become known as an overseas branch register of the company;
(b)where any Act or instrument (including in particular a company’s articles) refers to a company’s dominion register, that reference is to be read (unless the context otherwise requires) as being to an overseas branch register kept under this section; and
(c)references to a colonial register occurring in articles registered before 1st November 1929 are to be read as referring to an overseas branch register.
(3)Part II of Schedule 14 has effect with respect to overseas branch registers kept under this section; and Part III of the Schedule enables corresponding facilities in Great Britain to be accorded to companies incorporated in other parts of the world.
(4)The Foreign Jurisdiction Act 1890 has effect as if subsection (1) of this section, and Part II of Schedule 14, were included among the enactments which by virtue of section 5 of that Act may be applied by Order in Council to foreign countries in which for the time being Her Majesty has jurisdiction.
(5)Her Majesty may by Order in Council direct that subsection (1) above and Part II of Schedule 14 shall extend, with such exceptions, modifications or adaptations (if any) as may be specified in the Order, to any territories under Her Majesty’s protection to which those provisions cannot be extended under the Foreign Jurisdiction Act 1890.
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